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"Let us look at the current Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). The EU’s expansion to 12 new countries, generally with lower levels of development than the average for the 15 previous Member States, has brought undeniable challenges and demands in terms of realising the principle of economic and social cohesion. However, what we have seen is a relative cut in the Structural Funds from 0.42% to 0.37% of EU gross national income (GNI). In other words: they have been cut in relative terms at the time they were most needed. The results are plain to see: instead of the promised convergence, what we have is a visible divergence, exacerbated by the effects of the economic and social crisis, and by the functioning and development of instruments like the Single Market, to the benefit of some and to the clear detriment of others. This is the MFF now serving as a benchmark for the debate on the financial perspectives 2013-2020, with the proposal being, essentially, to maintain it. The 5% increase will not raise the EU budget substantially above 1% of Union GNI. Once again, this is threatening the heralded principle of cohesion. This is made even worse by the fact that available resources are now channelled into other purposes – included, nonetheless, in the Treaties: militarism and overseas intervention, amongst others – that make this principle even more secondary in nature."@en1
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